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A SHAKESPEARE CALENDAR 




WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 
From the Chandos Portrait in the National Portrait Gallery, England 



A SHAKESPEARE 
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JANUARY 

JANUARY FIRST 

/^^OD send every one their heart's desire! 

Much Ado About Nothing, in. iv. 

The best of happiness, 
Honour and fortunes, keep with you ! 

Timon of Athens, i, ii. 

JANUARY SECOND 

There is a history in all men's lives 
Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd : 
The which observed, a man may prophesy. 
With a near aim, of the main chance of things 
As yet not come to life, which in their seeds 
Arud weak beginnings lie intreasured. 

Second Fart King Henry W, in. i. 

JANUARY THIRD 

All with one consent praise new-born gauds. 

Though they are made and moulded of things past; 

And give to dust that is a little gilt 

More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. 

The present eye praises the present obje6l. 

Troilus and Cressida, in. iii, 

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JANUARY FOURTH 

Let's take the instant by the forward top; 
For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees 
The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time 
Steals ere we can effect them. 

Airs Well rhat Ends Well, v. iii. 

JANUARY FIFTH 

Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky. 

Thou dost not bite so nigh 

As benefits forgot; 

Though thou the waters warp. 

Thy sting is not so sharp 

As friend remember'd not. 

As You Like It, ii. vii. 

JANUARY SIXTH 

Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time: 

Some that will evermore peep through their eyes 

And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper. 

And other of such vinegar aspect 

That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, 

Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. 

Merchant of Venice, i. i . 

JANUARY SEVENTH 

Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy : 

Therefore they thought it good you hear a play 



JANUARY TWENTIETH 

What our contempt doth often hurl from us, 
We wish it ours again; the present pleasure, 
By revolution lowering, does become 
The opposite of itself. 

Antony and Cleopatra, i. ii, 

JANUARY TWENTY-FIRST 

'Tis but a base ignoble mind 
That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. 

Second Part King Henry VI, ii. i. 

JANUARY TWENTY-SECOND 

Where two raging fires meet together 
They do consume the thing that feeds their fury. 
Though little fires grow great with little wind, 
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all, 

'Taming of the Shrenv, ii. i. 

JANUARY TWENTY-THIRD 

If powers divine 

Behold our human ailions, as they do, 

I doubt not then but innocence shall make 

False accusation blush and tyranny 

Tremble at patiencCo 

IVinter's Tale, iii. ii. 



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JANUARY TWENTY-FOURTH 

Yet I do fear thy nature; 

It is too full o' the milk of human kindness 

To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; 

Art not without ambition, but without 

The illness should attend it; what thou wouldst 

highly, 

That wouldst thou holily ; wouldst not play false. 

And yet wouldst wrongly win. 

Macbeth, i. v. 

JANUARY TWENTY-FIFTH 

When Fortune in her shift and change of mood 
Spurns down her late beloved, all his dependents 
Which labour'd after him to the mountain's top 
Even on their knees and hands, let him slip down, 
Not one accompanying his declining foot. 

Timon of Athens, i. i. 

JANUARY TWENTY-SIXTH 

In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire 

With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales 

Of woeful ages long ago betid; 

And ere thou bid good-night, to quit their griefs 

Tell thou the lamentable tale of me. 

And send the hearers weeping to their beds. 

King Richard 11, v. i. 



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JANUARY TWENTY-SEVENTH 

But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, 

Than that which withering on the virgin thorn 

Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness. 

Midsummer Night's Dream, i. i, 

JANUARY TWENTY-EIGHTH 

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, 
And every tongue brings in a several tale. 
And every tale condemns me for a villain. 

King Richard III, v. iii. 

JANUARY TWENTY-NINTH 

Life every man holds dear; but the brave man 
Holds honour far more precious-dear than life. 
Troilus and Cressida, v. iii. 



He shall have a noble memory. 

Coriolanus, v. vi. 



JANUARY THIRTIETH 

I stole all courtesy from heaven, 
And dress'd myself in such humiHty 
That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts. 
Even in the presence of the crowned king. 
Thus did I keep my person fresh and new; 
My presence, like a robe pontifical. 
Ne'er seen but wonder'd at: and so my state. 



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Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast 
And won by rareness such solemnity. 

First Part King Henry IV, in. 

JANUARY THIRTY-FIRST 

Cease to lament for that thou canst not help, 
And study help for that which thou lament'st. 
Time is the nurse and breeder of all good. 

Tivo Gentlemen of Verona, in. 



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FEBRUARY 

FEBRUARY FIRST 

THERE is a kind of charader in thy life, 
That to the observer doth thy history 
Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings 
Are not thine own so proper as to waste 
Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. 
Heaven doth with us as we with torches do. 
Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues 
Did not go forth of us 't were all alike 

As if we had them not. 

Measure for Measure, i. i. 

FEBRUARY SECOND 

Care is no cure, but rather corrosive. 
For things that are not to be remedied. 

First Part King Henry VI, lu. iii. 

What cannot be avoided, 
'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. 

Third Part King Henry VI, v. iv. 

FEBRUARY THIRD 

If we did think 
His contemplation were above the earth. 
And fix'd on spiritual obje6l, he should still 

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Dwell in his musings; but I am afraid 

His thinkings are below the moon, not worth 

His serious considering. ^,-^^ Henry nil, iii. ii. 

FEBRUARY FOURTH 

Now the fair goddess, Fortune, 
Fall deep in love with thee : and her great charms 
Misguide thy opposers' swords! Bold gentlemen. 
Prosperity be thy page! Coriolanus, i. v. 

FEBRUARY FIFTH 

He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own 
glass, his own trumpet,his own chronicle; and what- 
ever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed 
in the praise. <rroilus and Cressida, II. iii. 

FEBRUARY SIXTH 

Fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns. 

Third Part King Henry FI, iv. vii. 

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; 
oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. 

Othello, II. iii. 

FEBRUARY SEVENTH 

'Tis not good that children should know any 
wickedness : old folks, you know, have discretion, 
as they say, and know the world. 

Merry Wi-ues of Windsor, ii. ii. 

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FEBRUARY EIGHTH 

Against the blown rose may they stop their nose 
That kneel'd unto the buds. 

Antony and Cleopatra^ in. xiii. 

The heavens rain odours on you! 

Tnxjelfth Night, in. i. 

FEBRUARY NINTH 

Give thy thoughts no tongue, 
Nor any unproportion'd thought his z&.. 
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. 
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried. 
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel j 
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment 
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. 

Hamlet, i. iii. 

FEBRUARY TENTH 

(From women's eyes this dodlrine 1 derive; 
They are the ground, the books, the academes 
From whence doth spring the true Promethean 

fire.) . . . 
For where is any author in the world 
Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? 

Loves Labour^s Lost, iv. iii. 



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FEBRUARY ELEVENTH 

It oft falls out, 
To have what we would have, we speak not what 

we mean: 
I something do excuse the thing I hate, 
For his advantage that I dearly love. 

Measure for Measure, i\. iv. 

FEBRUARY TWELFTH 

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause. 

Titus Andronicus, i. i. 

For my country I have shed my blood. 

Coriolanus, iii. i. 

FEBRUARY THIRTEENTH 

To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, 

All in the morning betime. 
And I a maid at your window, 
To be your valentine. 

Hamlet, iv. v. 

FEBRUARY FOURTEENTH 
Hit with Cupid's archery. 

Midsummer Night's Dream, iii. il. 

Doubt thou the stars are fire; 
Doubt that the sun doth move; 

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Doubt truth to be a liarj 
But never doubt I love. 

Hamlet, ii. ii. 

FEBRUARY FIFTEENTH 

New customs, 
Though they be never so ridiculous, 
Nay, let 'em be unmanly, yet are follow'd. 

King Henry FUI, i. iii. 

FEBRUARY SIXTEENTH 

He cannot flatter, he 
An honest mind and plain, he must speak truth! 
An they will take it, so; if not, he's plain. 
These kind of knaves I know, which in this plain- 
ness. 
Harbour more craft, and more corrupter ends 
Than twenty silly-ducking observants, 
That stretch their duties nicely. 

King Lear, u. ii. 

FEBRUARY SEVENTEENTH 

Advantage is a better soldier than rashness. 

King Henry V, in. vi. 

The better part of valour is discretion. 

First Fart King Henry IV, v. iv. 



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FEBRUARY EIGHTEENTH 

Even for our kitchens 

We kill the fowl of season j shall we serve Heaven 

With less respe6t than we do minister 

To our gross selves? * 

Measure for Measure, ii. ii. 

FEBRUARY NINETEENTH 

Miracles are ceas'd, 

And therefore we must needs admit the means 

How things are perfected. 

King Henry F, i. i. 

FEBRUARY TWENTIETH 

Because I cannot flatter and speak fair, 

Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog. 

Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, 

I must be held a rancorous enemy. 

Cannot a plain man live, and think no harm? 

King Richard III, i. iii. 

FEBRUARY TWENTY-FIRST 

One fire burns out another's burning. 
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish; 
Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; 
One desperate grief cures with another's languish; 
Take thou some new infedtion to thy eye. 
And the rank poison of the old will die. 

Romeo and Juliet, i. ii, 

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FEBRUARY TWENTY-SECOND 

A braver soldier never couched lance, 
A gentler heart did never sway in court; 
But kings and mightiest potentates must die, 
For that's the end of human misery. 

First Part King Henry VI, in. ii. 

FEBRUARY TWENTY-THIRD 
O, this life 
Is nobler than attending for a check. 
Richer than doing nothing for a bribe, 
Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk. 

Cymbeline, iii. iii, 

FEBRUARY TWENTY-FOURTH 

As the unthought-on accident is guilty 

To what we wildly do, so we profess 

Ourselves to be the slaves of chance and flies 

Of every wind that blows. 

Winter s Tale, iv. iv. 

FEBRUARY TWENTY-FIFTH 

I am not covetous for gold. 
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; 
It yearns me not if men my garments wear; 
Such outward things dwell not in my desires: 
But if it be a sin to covet honour, 
I am the most offending soul alive. 

King Henry V, iv. iii. 

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FEBRUARY TWENTY-SIXTH 

By a divine instin6t, men's minds mistrust 

Ensuing dangers; as, by proof, we see 

The waters swell before a boisterous storm. 

But leave it all to Godc 

King Richard III, n. iii. 

FEBRUARY TWENTY-SEVENTH 

Her looks do argue her replete with modesty; 
Her words do show her wit incomparable; 
All her perfe6tions challenge sovereignty. 

Third Part King Henry VI, in. ii. 

FEBRUARY TWENTY-EIGHTH 

Happy are they that hear their detra£l:ions and can 
put them to mending. 

Much Ado About Nothing, ii. iii. 



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MARCH 

MARCH FIRST 

T X 7INTER 'S not gone yet, if the wild-geese 

^ ^ Ry that way. 

King Lear, ii. iv. 



For now the wind begins to blow; 
Thunder above and deeps below. 



Pericles, ii. 



MARCH SECOND 

Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd. 
Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is. 

Titus Andronicus, ii. iv. 

Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak 
Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break. 

Macbeth, iv. iii. 

MARCH THIRD 

Our doubts are traitors. 

And make us lose the good we oft might win 

By fearing to attempt. 

Measure for Measure, i. iv. 



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MARCH FOURTH 

Dost thou love pidtures? We will fetch thee 

straight 

Adonis painted by a running brook, 

And Cytherea all in sedges hid, 

Which seem to move and wanton with her 

breath. 

Taming of the Shreiv, IND. ii. 

MARCH FIFTH 

Be that thou hop'st to be, or what thou art 
Resign to death; it is not worth the enjoying. 
Let pale-fac'd fear keep with the mean-born man. 
And find no harbour in a royal heart. 

Second Part King Henry VI, in. i. 

MARCH SIXTH 

Thou wert as witty a piece of Eve's flesh as any 

in Illyria. 

Twelfth Night, i. v. 

What made me love thee ? let that persuade thee 
there's something extraordinary in thee. 

Merry Wi^es of Windsor, iii. iii. 

MARCH SEVENTH 

Falseness cannot come from thee; for thou 

look'st 
Modest as Justice, and thou seem'st a palace 

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For the crown'd Truth to dwell in: I will be- 
lieve thee, 
And make my senses credit thy relation 

To points that seem impossible. 

Pericles, V. i. 

MARCH EIGHTH 

In an early spring 
We see the appearing buds; which to prove fruit, 
Hope gives not so much warrant as despair 
That frost will bite them. 

Second Part King Henry IF, i. iii. 

MARCH NINTH 

Beshrew me but I love her heartily; 
For she is wise, if I can judge of her; 
And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true; 
And true she is, as she hath proved herself; 
And therefore, like herself, wise, fair and true. 
Shall she be placed in my constant soul. 

Merchant of Venice, ii. vi. 

MARCH TENTH 

They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either 
in nativity, chance, or death. 

Merry Wi'ues of Windsor, v. 1. 

He that wants money, means, and content is 

without three good friends. 

As Tou Like It, iii. ii. 

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MARCH ELEVENTH 

Though it be honest, It is never good 
To bring bad news; give to a gracious message 
An host of tongues ; but let ill tidings tell 
Themselves when they be felt. 

Antony and Cleopatra, ii. v- 

MARCH TWELFTH 

Hath Britain all the sun that shines ? Day, night. 
Are they not but in Britain? I' the world's vo- 
lume 
Our Britain seems as of it, but not in't; 
In a great pool a swan's nest: prithee, think 

There's livers out of Britain. ^ , 7- 

Cymbeline, in. iv. 

MARCH THIRTEENTH 

O momentary grace of mortal men, 
Which we more hunt for than the grace of God ! 
Who builds his hope in air of your good looks, 
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast. 
Ready, with every nod, to tumble down 
Into the fatal bowels of the deep. 

King Richard III, m. iv. 

MARCH FOURTEENTH 

A woman mov'd is like a fountain troubled. 
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty; 
And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty 
Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it. 

'Taming of the Shrenv, v. ii. 
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MARCH FIFTEENTH 

To say the truth, reason and love keep little com- 
pany together nowadays; the more the pity that 
some honest neighbours will not make them friends. 
Midsummer Night's Dream, in. i. 

MARCH SIXTEENTH 

Possess'd he is with greatness. 

And speaks not to himself but with a pride 

That quarrels at self-breath; imagin'd worth 

Holds in his blood such swoln and hot discourse 

That 'twixt his mental and his active parts 

Kingdom'd Achilles in commotion rages 

And batters down himself. . . 

He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it 

Cry "No recovery." 

Troilus and Cressida, ii. iii. 

MARCH SEVENTEENTH 

Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, 

But seeming so, for my peculiar end: 

For when my outward action doth demonstrate 

The native adi and figure of my heart 

In compliment extern, 't is not long after 

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve 

For daws to peck at: I am not what I am. 

Othello, I. i. 



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MARCH EIGHTEENTH 

Prosperity 's the very bond of love, 

Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together 

Affliction alters. 

Winter^s Tale, iv. iv, 

MARCH NINETEENTH 

For life, I prize it 
As I weigh grief, which I would spare; for ho- 
nour, 
'Tis a derivative from me to mine, 
And only that I stand for . . . 
To me can life be no commodity. 

Winter s Tale, iii. ii. 

MARCH TWENTIETH 

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows. 
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows. 
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine. 
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine. 

Midsummer Nigkfs Dream, ii. i. 

MARCH TWENTY-FIRST 

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks ! rage ! blow ! 

King Lear, in. ii. 

The ides of March are come. 

Julius Caesar, m. i. 



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MARCH TWENTY-SECOND 

See where she comes, apparell'd like the spring, 

Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king 

Of every virtue gives renovi^n to men ! 

Her face the book of praises, where is read 

Nothing but curious pleasures, as from thence 

Sorrow were ever razed, and testy wrath 

Could never be her mild companion. 

Pericles, l. i. 

MARCH TWENTY-THIRD 

Win her with gifts, if she respect not words; 
Dumb jewels often in their silent kind 
More than quick words do move a woman's mind. 
Two Gentlemen of Verona, iii. i. 

MARCH TWENTY-FOURTH 

Thy life is dear; for all that life can rate 
Worth name of life in thee hath estimate. 
Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, all 
That happiness and prime can happy call. 

AlVs Well That Ends Well, ii. i. 

MARCH TWENTY-FIFTH 

. . . Daffodils, 
That come before the swallow dares, and take 
The winds of March with beauty; violets dim. 
But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes 
Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, 

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That die unmarried, ere they can behold 

Bright Phoebus in his strength; . . . bold oxlips and 

The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, 

The flower-de-luce being one! 

Winter s Tale, iv, iv. 

MARCH TWENTY-SIXTH 

Princes have but their titles for their glories. 
An outward honour for an inward toilj 
And, for unfelt imagination. 
They often feel a world of restless cares ; 
So that, between their titles and low names 
There's nothing differs but the outward fame. 

King Richard III, i. iv. 

MARCH TWENTY-SEVENTH 

Such as I am all true lovers are, 
Unstaid and skittish in all motions else. 
Save in the constant image of the creature 

That is beloved. 

Twelfth Night, ii. iv. 

MARCH TWENTY-EIGHTH 

Men so noble, 

However faulty, yet should find respedt 

For what they have been : 't is a cruelty 

To load a falling man. 

King Henry Fill, v. iii. 



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MARCH TWENTY-NINTH 

Things in motion sooner catch the eye 

Than what not stirs. 

Troilus and Cressida, iii. iii. 

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. 

As You Like It, i. iii. 

MARCH THIRTIETH 

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, 
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron. 
Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; 
But life, being weary of these worldly bars, 
Never lacks power to dismiss itself. 

Julius Ccesar, i. iii. 

MARCH THIRTY-FIRST 

Marriage is a matter of more worth 
Than to be dealt in by attorneyship. 

For what is wedlock forced but a hell. 
An age of discord and continual strife ? 
Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, 
And is a pattern of celestial peace. 

First Part King Henry VI, v. v. 



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APRIL 

APRIL FIRST 

WELL-apparell'd April on the heel 
Of limping winter treads. 

Romeo and Juliet, i. ii. 

Make a fool of him. 

Tnvelfth Night, ii. iii. 

APRIL SECOND 

Faster than spring-time showers comes thought 

on thought, 
And not a thought but thinks on dignity. 

Second Part King Henry FI, in. i. 

When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim. 
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing. 

Sonnet xcviii. 

APRIL THIRD 

There's nothing in this world can make me joy; 

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale 

Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man ; 

And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's 

taste, 
That it yields nought but shame and bitterness. 

r 2Q 1 ^^"^ John, III. Iv. 



APRIL FOUJRTH 

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, 
Which we ascribe to Heaven j the fated sky- 
Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull 
Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. 

Airs Well that Ends Well, i. i. 

APRIL FIFTH 

Not with fond shekels of the tested gold. 

Or stones whose rates are either rich or poor 

As fancy values themj but with true prayers. 

That shall be up at heaven and enter there 

Ere sun-rise. 

Measure for Measure, ii. ii. 

APRIL SIXTH 

But I am constant as the northern star. 
Of whose true-fix'd, and resting quality, 
There is no fellow in the firmament. 

'Julius Casar, ill. i. 

APRIL SEVENTH 

That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain. 

And follows but for form. 

Will pack when it begins to rain. 

And leave thee in the storm. 

King Lear, ii. iv. 



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APRIL EIGHTH 

Will Fortune never come with both hands full, 
But write her fair words in foulest letters ? 
She either gives a stomach and no food: 
Such are the poor, in health; or else a feast 
And takes away the stomach : such are the rich, 
That have abundance and enjoy it not. 

Second Part King Henry W, iv. iv, 

APRIL NINTH 

The purest treasure mortal times afford 
Is spotless reputation: that away, 
Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. 
A jewel in a ten-times-barr'd-up chest 
Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast. 

King Richard II, i. i. 

APRIL TENTH 

And sometimes we are devils to ourselves. 
When we will tempt the frailty of our powers. 
Presuming on their changeful potency. 

Troilus and Cressida, iv. iv. 

APRIL ELEVENTH 

For the rain it raineth every day. 

Tijuelfth Night, v. i. 

Sunshine and rain at once. 

King Lear, iv. iii. 



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APRIL TWELFTH 

Though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, 
I am one that am nourished by my vi6luals and 
would fain have meat. 

Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. i. 

APRIL THIRTEENTH 

They that touch pitch will be defiled. 

Muck Ado About Nothing, in. iii. 

And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear. 

Millions of mischiefs. 

Julius Casar, iv. i. 

APRIL FOURTEENTH 

My crown is in my heart, not on my head, 
Not deck'd with diamonds and Indian stones, 
Nor to be seen ; my crown is call'd content : 
A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy. 

Third Part King Henry FI, in. i. 

APRIL FIFTEENTH 

Where is your ancient courage? you were used 

To say extremity was the trier of spirits; 

That common chances common men could bear; 

That when the sea was calm all boats alike 

Show'd mastership in floating. 

Coriolanus, iv. i. 

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APRIL SIXTEENTH 

Well, believe this, 

No ceremony that to great ones 'longs. 

Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword. 

The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, 

Become them with one half so good a grace 

As mercy does. 

Measure for Measure, ii. ii, 



APRIL SEVENTEENTH 

This day hath made 
Much work for tears in many an English mother. 
Whose sons lie scatter'd on the bleeding ground. 

King John, n. i. 

APRIL EIGHTEENTH 

Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? 

. . . And the creature run from the cur? There, 

thou might'st behold the great image of authority. 

A dog's obeyed in office. 

King Lear, iv. vi. 

APRIL NINETEENTH 

All solemn things 
Should answer solemn accidents ... 
Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys 
Is jollity for apes and grief for boys. 

Cymbeline, iv, ii. 



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APRIL TWENTIETH 

To beguile the time, 
Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, 
Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent 

flower, 
But be the serpent under 't. Macbeth, i. v. 

APRIL TWENTY-FIRST 

There's no better sign of a brave mind than a 
hard hand. second Part King Henry VI, iv. ii. 

I have heard her reported to be a woman of an 

invincible spirit. 

Second Part King Henry FI, i. iv. 

APRIL TWENTY-SECOND 

'T is the sport to have the engineer 
Hoist with his own petard; and 't shall go hard 
But I will delve one yard below their mines, 
And blow them at the moon. Hamlet ni. iv. 

APRIL TWENTY-THIRD 

Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn 

The living record of your memory. 

'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity 

Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find 

room 
Even in the eyes of all posterity 
That wear this world out to the ending doom. 

Sonnet I'v. 

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APRIL TWENTY-FOURTH 

To wail friends lost 

Is not by much so wholesome-profitable 

As to rejoice at friends but newly found. 

LoHjis Labour^! Lost, v. ii. 

APRIL TWENTY-FIFTH 

A day in April never came so sweet, 

Xo show how costly summer was at hand. 

Merchant of Venice, ii. ix. 

Welcome these pleasant days! 

Second Part King Henry IV, v. iii. 

APRIL TWENTY-SIXTH 

I will rail 

And say there is no sin but to be rich; 

And being rich, my virtue then shall be 

To say there is no vice but beggary. 

King John, n. i. 

APRIL TWENTY-SEVENTH 

His goodly eyes, 
That o'er the files and musters of the war 
Have glow'd like plated Mars. 

Antony and Cleopatra, i. i. 



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APRIL TWENTY-EIGHTH 

O, he is as tedious 
As a tired horse, a railing wife; 
Worse than a smoky house: I had rather live 
With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far, 
Than feed on cates and have him talk to me 
In any summer-house in Christendom. 

First Part King Henry W, in. i. 

APRIL TWENTY-NINTH 

To expostulate 

What majesty should be, what duty is. 

Why day is day, night night, and time is time. 

Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. 

Hamlet, ii. ii. 

APRIL THIRTIETH 

'Tis much he dares; 

And, to that dauntless temper of his mind. 

He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour 

To a(£l: in safety. 

Macbeth, in. i. 



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MAY 

MAY FIRST 

VIRTUE he had, deserving to command; 
His brandish'd sword did blind men with 
his beams; 

... his deeds exceed all speech; 
He ne'er lift up his hand but conquered. 

First Part King Henry VI, i. L 

MAY SECOND 

Thou dost conspire against thy friend, . . . 

If thou but think'st him wrong'd and makest his 

ear 

A stranger to thy thoughts. 

Othello, III. iii. 

MAY THIRD 

Her voice was ever soft. 
Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman. 

King Lear, V. iii. 

Sweet friend: 
Thy love ne'er alter till thy sweet life end! 

Midsummer Nigkfs Dream, ii. ii. 

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MAY FOURTH 

So may the outward shows be least themselves; 
The world is still deceived with ornament. 
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, 
But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, 
Obscures the show of evil ? 

Merchant of Venice, in. ii. 

MAY FIFTH 

Wouldst thou have that 
Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life. 
And live a coward in thine own esteem, 
Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," 
Like the poor cat i' the adage ? Macbeth i. vii. 

MAY SIXTH 

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, 
And summer's lease hath all too short a date: 
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines. 
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; 
And every fair from fair sometimes declines. 
By chance or nature's changing course, un- 
trimm'd. sonnet xmli. 

MAY SEVENTH 

In nature there's no blemish but the mind; 
None can be call'd deform'd but the unkind. 
Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil 
Are empty trunks o'erflourish'd by the devil. 

[- ^o T Twelfth Night, 111. \w. 



MAY EIGHTH 

When workmen strive to do better than well. 
They do confound their skill in covetousness; 
And oftentimes excusing of a fault 
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. 

King John, iv. ii. 

MAY NINTH 

Under a compelling occasion, let women die ; 
it were pity to cast them away for nothing; though 
between them and a great cause, they should be 
esteemed nothing. j„f^„^ ^„j Cleopatra, i. ii. 

MAY TENTH 

His years but young, but his experience old; 
His head unmellow'd, but his judgment ripe; . . . 
He is complete in feature and in mind 
With all good grace to grace a gentleman. 

Tofo Gentlemen of Verona, ix. iv. 

MAY ELEVENTH 

Love, whose month is ever May, 
Spied a blossom passing fair 
Playing in the wanton air: 
Through the velvet leaves the wind, 
All unseen, can passage find; 
That the lover, sick to death. 
Wish himself the heaven's breath. 

Lo've''s Labour'' s Lost, iv. ill. 

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MAY TWELFTH 

Fling away ambition: 
By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then, 
The image of his Maker, hope to win by it ? 

King Henry VIII, ui. ii. 

MAY THIRTEENTH 

In poison there is physic; and these news. 
Having been well, that would have made me sick, 
Being sick, have in some measure made me well. 
Second Part King Henry IF, i. I. 

MAY FOURTEENTH 

The ample proposition that hope makes 
In all designs begun on earth below 
Fails in the promised largeness; checks and dis- 
asters 
Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd. 
As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, 
Infeft the sound pine, and divert his grain 
Tortive and errant from his course of growth. 

Troilus and Cressida, i. iii. 

MAY FIFTEENTH 

Lowliness is young ambition's ladder. 
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; 
But when he once attains the upmost round 
He then unto the ladder turns his back. 
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees 
By which he did ascend. y^^//^^ q^^^t, ii. i. 

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MAY SIXTEENTH 

The heavens hold firm 
The walls of thy dear honour, keep unshaked 
That temple, thy fair mind, that thou mayst stand. 

Cytnbeline, ii. i. 

MAY SEVENTEENTH 

Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor. 
For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; 
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds. 
So honour peereth in the meanest habit. 

Taming of the Shreiv, iv. iii. 

MAY EIGHTEENTH 

Out, out, brief candle ! 

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player 

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage. 

And then is heard no more: it is a tale 

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. 

Signifying nothing. 

Macbeth, v. v. 

MAY NINETEENTH 

Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once, 
And He that might the vantage best have took 
Found out the remedy. How would you be. 
If He, which is the top of judgment, should 
But judge you as you are ? 

Measure for Measure, ii. ii. 

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MAY TWENTIETH 

Come, lay aside your stitchery. , . . You would be 
another Penelope ; yet, they say, all the yarn she 
spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca full of 
moths. 

Coriolanus, i. iii. 

MAY TWENTY-FIRST 

The strawberry grows underneath the nettle, 
And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best 
Neighbour' d by fruit of baser quality. 

King Henry F,i.\. 

MAY TWENTY-SECOND 

When Fortune means to men most good, 
She looks upon them with a threatening eye. 

King John, ill. iv. 

Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes: 
Some falls are means the happier to arise. 

Cymbeline, iv. ii. 

MAY TWENTY-THIRD 

He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue 
is the clapper, for what his heart thinks his tongue 

speaks. 

Much Ado About Nothing, in. ii. 



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MAY TWENTY-FOURTH 

She had all the royal makings of a queen ; 
As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown, 
The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems 
Laid nobly on her. 

King Henry Fill, iv. i. 

MAY TWENTY-FIFTH 

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices 

Make instruments to plague us. 

King Lear, V. iii, 

MAY TWENTY-SIXTH 

I would entreat you rather to put on 

Your boldest suit of mirth, for we have friends 

That purpose merriment. 

Merchant of Venice, ii. ii. 

MAY TWENTY-SEVENTH 
It was a lover and his lass. 

With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino. 
That o'er the green corn-field did pass 

In spring time, the only pretty ring time. 
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding: 
Sweet lovers love the spring. 

As You Like It, v. iii. 



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MAY TWENTY-EIGHTH 

Ceremony was but devised at first 
To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, 
Recanting goodness, sorry ere 't is shown; 
But where there is true friendship, there needs 
none. 

Timon of Athens, i. ii. 

MAY TWENTY-NINTH 

Why should proud summer boast 
Before the birds have any cause to sing? . . . 
At Christmas I no more desire a rose 
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; 
But like of each thing that in season grows. 

Lo'ves Labour's Lost, i. i. 

MAY THIRTIETH 

Knocks go and come; God's vassals drop and die; 

And sword and shield. 

In bloody field. 

Doth win immortal fame. 

King Henry F, in. ii. 

MAY THIRTY-FIRST 

The wound of peace is surety. 

Surety secure; but modest doubt is call'd 

The beacon of the wise. 

Troilus and Cressida, ii. ii. 



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JUNE 

JUNE FIRST 

WHEN wheat is green, when hawthorn buds 
appear. 

Midsummer Nighfs Dream, i. i. 

Thou, Nature, art my goddess j to thy law 

My services are bound. 

King Lear, i. ii. 

JUNE SECOND 

Look sweet, speak fair, become disloyalty; 

Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger; 
Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted; 
Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint. 

Comedy of Errors, in. ii. 

JUNE THIRD 

Base men, being in love, have then a nobility in 
their natures more than is native to them. 

Othello, II. i. 

JUNE FOURTH 

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; 
But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, 

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Make gallant show and promise of their mettle, 
But when they should endure the bloody spur, 
They fall their crests, and, like deceitful jades. 
Sink in the trial. j^u^s Casar, iv. ii, 

JUNE FIFTH 

If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep. 
My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. 
My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne; 
And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit 
Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. 
Romeo and Juliet^ v. i. 

JUNE SIXTH 

Omission to do what is necessary 
Seals a commission to a blank of danger; 
And danger, like an ague, subtly taints 
Even then when we sit idly in the sun. 

Troths and Cressida, in. iil. 

JUNE SEVENTH 

Remember thee! 
Yea, from the table of my memory 
I '11 wipe away all trivial fond records. 
All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, 
That youth and observation copied there; 
And thy commandment all along shall live 
Within the book and volume of my brain, 
Unmix'd with baser matter. Hamlet i v 

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JUNE EIGHTH 

By my Christendom, 

So I were out of prison and kept sheep, 

I should be as happy as the day is long. 

Kmg John, iv. i. 

JUNE NINTH 

Then do we sin against our own estate 
When we may profit meet, and come too late. 

Timon of Athens, v. i. 

Celerity is never more admir'd 

Than by the negligent. 

Antony and Cleopatra, in. vii. 

JUNE TENTH 

I have a heart as little apt as yours, 

But yet a brain that leads my use of anger 

To better vantage. 

Coriolanus, ill. ii. 

JUNE ELEVENTH 

The current that with gentle murmur glides, 
Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth 

rage; 
But when his fair course is not hindered. 
He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones. 
Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge 
He overtaketh in his pilgrimage. 

Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. vii. 

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JUNE TWELFTH 

The sin of my ingratitude even now 
Was heavy on me: thou art so far before 
The swiftest wing of recompense is slow 
To overtake thee. 

Macbeth, i. iv. 

JUNE THIRTEENTH 

The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish 
Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, 
And greedily devour the treacherous bait. 

Much Ado About Nothing, iii. i. 

JUNE FOURTEENTH 

O spirit of love ! how quick and fresh art thou, 

That, notwithstanding thy capacity 

Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there. 

Of what validity and pitch soe'er. 

But falls into abatement and low price, 

Even in a minute. 

Tiuelfth Night, i. i. 

JUNE FIFTEENTH 

Full merrily the humble-bee doth sing. 
Till he hath lost his honey and his sting; 
And being once subdued in armed tail. 
Sweet honey and sweet notes together fail. 

Troilus and Cressida, v. x. 



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JUNE SIXTEENTH 

In the book of Numbers it is writ, 

When a man dies, let the inheritance 

Descend unto the daughter. ^-^^ ^^^^^ ^^ i. ;;. 

JUNE SEVENTEENTH 

If you do sweat to put a tyrant down. 
You sleep in peace, the tyrant being slain; 
If you do fight against your country's foes. 
Your country's fat shall pay your pains the hire ; . . . 
Then, in the name of God and all these rights. 
Advance your standards, draw your willing swords. 
King Richard III, v. iii. 

JUNE EIGHTEENTH 

Then God forgive the sins of all those souls, 
That to their everlasting residence, 
Before the dew of evening fall, shall fleet 
In dreadful trial of our kingdom's king! 

King John, u.\. 

JUNE NINETEENTH 

The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. 
When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees. 
And they did make no noise — in such a night, 
Troilus, methinks, mounted the Troyan walls. 
And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, 
Where Cressid lay that night. 

Merchant of Venice, V. i. 

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JUNE TWENTIETH 

All of us have cause 
To wail the dimming of our shining starj 
But none cure their harms by wailing them. 

King Richard III, n, ii. 

JUNE TWENTY-FIRST 

Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait, 
His day's hot task hath ended in the west; 
The owl, night's herald, shrieks "'T is very late;" 
The sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest. 
And coal-black clouds that shadow heaven's 

light 
Do summon us to part and bid good night. 

Venus and Adonis, st. 89 (11. 529-34). 

JUNE TWENTY-SECOND 

More water glideth by the mill 
Than wots the miller of; and easy it is 
Of a cut loaf to steal a shive. 

Titus Andronicus, 11. i. 

JUNE TWENTY-THIRD 

Thus can the demigod Authority 
Make us pay down for our offence by weight 
The word of Heaven: on whom it will, it will; 
On whom it will not, so; yet still 't is just. 

Measure for Measure, i. Ii. 

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JUNE TWENTY-FOURTH 

Things done well, 
And with a care, exempt themselves from fear; 
Things done without example, in their issue 
Are to be fear'd. ^-^^ ^,^^^ ^jjj^ , j;_ 

JUNE TWENTY-FIFTH 

It so falls out 

That what we have we prize not to the worth 

Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost. 

Why, then we rack the value, then we find 

The virtue that possession would not show us 

Whiles it was ours. ^^,^ j^^ ^^,^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^ i. 

JUNE TWENTY-SIXTH 

Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepherd? 

Thy sheep be in the corn; 
And for one blast of thy minikin mouth, 
Thy sheep shall take ho harm. 

King Lear, in. vi. 

JUNE TWENTY-SEVENTH 

What you do 
Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet, 
I 'Id have you do it ever; when you sing, 
I 'Id have you buy and sell so, so give alms. 
Pray so : . . . each your doing. 
So singular in each particular. 
Crowns what you are doing in the present deed, 
That all your a6ls are queens. 

r r J "I Winter s Tale, iv. iv. 



JUNE TWENTY-EIGHTH 

If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? 
Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should 
his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, 
revenge. The villainy you teach me, I will exe- 
cute, and it shall go hard but I will better the in- 
stru61:ion. 

Merchant of Venice, iii. i. 

JUNE TWENTY-NINTH 

Love like a shadow flies when substance love 

pursues; 
Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. 
Merry Wmes of Windsor, ii. ii. 

JUNE THIRTIETH 

Love's heralds should be thoughts. 
Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams. 
Driving back shadows over louring hills : 
Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw love. 
And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings. 
Romeo and Juliet, ii. v. 



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JULY 

JULY FIRST 

WE defy augury; there's a special providence 
in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 't is 
not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; 
if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness 

is all. 

Hamlet, v. ii. 

JULY SECOND 

Under the greenwood tree. 
Who loves to lie with me, 
And turn his merry note 
Unto the sweet bird's throat; 
Come hither, come hither, come hither; 
Here shall he see 
No enemy. 
But winter and rough weather. 

As You Like It, ii. v, 

JULY THIRD 

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul 
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, 
Chaos is come again. 

Othello, in. iii. 

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JULY FOURTH 

Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement ! 

Julius Cissar, in. i. 

Ring, bells, aloud ; burn, bonfires, clear and bright. 
Second Part King Henry VI, v. i. 

JULY FIFTH 

O mistress mine, where are you roaming? 
O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, 

That can sing both high and low: 
Trip no further, pretty sweeting; 
Journeys end in lovers meeting. 

Every wise man's son doth know. 

Twelfth Night, ii. lii, 

JULY SIXTH 

They say, best men are moulded out of faults; 

And, for the most, become much more the better 

For being a little bad. 

Measure for Measure, V. I. 

JULY SEVENTH 

Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; 

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, 

Devised at first to keep the strong in awe; 

Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our 

law. 

King Richard III, V. iii. 

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JULY EIGHTH 

Silence is the perfe6test herald of joy; I were but 
little happy if I could say how much. 

Much Ado About Nothing, ii. i. 

There 's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd. 
Antony and Cleopatra, i. i. 

JULY NINTH 

Were I crown'd the most imperial monarch, 
Thereof most worthy, were I the fairest youth 
That ever made eye swerve, had force and know- 
ledge 
More than was ever man's, I would not prize them 

Without her love. 

Winter s Tale, iv. iv. 

JULY TENTH 

Sweet are the uses of adversity, 
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, 
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; 
And this our life, exempt from public haunt. 
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running 

brooks. 
Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 

As You Like It, n. i. 



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JULY ELEVENTH 

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily 
""^^^' Troilus and Cressida, ii. iii. 

We are born to do benefits. 

I'imon of Athens, i. ii. 

JULY TWELFTH 

Who dares not stir by day must walk by night. 

King John^ i. i. 

No legacy is so rich as honesty. 

Airs Well That Ends Well, ni. v. 

JULY THIRTEENTH 

Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose 
To the wet sea-boy, in an hour so rude, 
And in the calmest and most stillest night. 
With all appliances and means to boot. 
Deny it to a king? Then happy low, lie down! 
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. 

'^ Second Part King Henry IV, in. i. 

JULY FOURTEENTH 

When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, 

And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, 
When turtles tread, and rooks and daws. 
And maidens bleach their summer smocks. 

Lome's Labour^ s Lost, v. ii. 
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JULY FIFTEENTH 

Firm of word, 

Speaking in deeds, and deedless in his tongue; 

Not soon provoked, nor being provoked soon 

calm'd; 

His heart and hand both open and both free. 

Troilus and Cressida, iv. v. 

JULY SIXTEENTH 

But man, proud man, 

Drest in a little brief authority. 

Most ignorant of what he 's most assured, 

His glassy essence, like an angry ape. 

Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven 

As make the angels weep. 

Measure for Measure, ii. ii. 

JULY SEVENTEENTH 

Has he dined, canst thou tell? for I would not 
speak with him till after dinner. 

Coriolanus, v. ii. 

JULY EIGHTEENTH 

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade 
To shepherds looking on their silly sheep. 
Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy 
To kings that fear their subjects' treachery? 
O, yes, it doth; a thousand-fold it doth. 

Third Part King Henry FI, n. v. 

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JULY NINETEENTH 

I say little; but when time shall serve, there shall 
be smiles. ^-^^ Henry F, ii. I. 

JULY TWENTIETH 

Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; 
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes ; 
Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears; 
What is it else? a madness most discreet, 
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. 

Romeo and Juliet, i. i. 

JULY TWENTY-FIRST 

For several virtues 
Have I liked several women, never any 
With so full soul, but some defeft in her 
Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, 
And put it to the foil; but you, O you. 
So perfect and so peerless, are created 
Of every creature's best ! ^^, ^,^^,,^^ ^^^^ j^ 

JULY TWENTY-SECOND 

To me, fair friend, you never can be old. 
For as you were, when first your eye I eyed. 
Such seems your beauty still. bonnet cm. 

Forty thousand brothers 
Could not, with all their quantity of love, 
Make up my sum. ^^^/,^^ y. i 

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JULY TWENTY-THIRD 

This is very midsummer madness. 

Tnjoelfth Night, in. iv. 

We that have good wits have much to answer for. 

As You Like It, v. i. 

JULY TWENTY-FOURTH 

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! 
Here will we sit and let the sounds of music 
Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night 
Become the touches of sweet harmony. 

Merchant of Venice, v. i. 

JULY TWENTY-FIFTH 

This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, 
I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : 
Here can I sit alone, unseen of any. 
And to the nightingale's complaining notes 
Tune my distresses and record my woes. 

Two Gentlemen of Verona, V. iv. 

JULY TWENTY-SIXTH 

My endeavours 
Have ever come too short of my desires, 

Yet filled with my abilities. 

King Henry Vlll, iii. ii. 



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JULY TWENTY-SEVENTH 

Who seeks, and will not take when once 't is 

offer'd, 

Shall never find it more. 

Antony and Cleopatra, ii. vii. 

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends. 

First Part King Henry VI, iii. ii. 

JULY TWENTY-EIGHTH 

The best wishes that can be forged in your 
thoughts be servants to you! 

All V Well rhat Ends Well, i. i. 

JULY TWENTY-NINTH 

Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch 
Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth 
Between two blades,which bears the better temper 
Between two horses, which doth bear him best 
Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye 
I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment 
First Part King Henry VI, ii. iv 

JULY THIRTIETH 

I see the jewel best enamelled 
Will lose his beauty; and though gold bides still 
That others touch, yet often touching will 
Wear gold ; and so a man that hath a name. 
By falsehood and corruption doth it shame. 

r 60 1 Comedy of Errors, 11. \. 



JULY THIRTY-FIRST 

God is much displeased 
That you take with unthankfulness his doing. 
In common worldly things, 't is call'd ungrateful 
With dull unwilHngness to repay a debt 
Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent. 
King Richard III, ii. ii. 



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AUGUST 



AUGUST FIRST 

WHO riseth from a feast 
With that keen appetite that he sits down ? 
Where is the horse that doth untread again 
His tedious measures with the unbated fire 
That he did pace them first? All things that are 
Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd. 

Merchant of Venice, ii. vi. 

AUGUST SECOND 

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. 

Timon of Athens, \\\. v. 

What doth cherish weeds but gentle air? 

And what makes robbers bold but too much 

lenity ? 

third Part King Henry VI, ii. vi. 

AUGUST THIRD 

I cannot tell what you and other men 
Think of this life; but, for my single self, 
I had as lief not be as live to be 
In awe of such a thing as I myself. 

Julius Casar, \. ii. 

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AUGUST FOURTH 

The aim of all is but to nurse the life 
With honour, wealth, and ease, in waning age; 
And in this aim there is such thwarting strife, 
That one for all, or all for one we gage; 
As life for honour in fell battle's rage; 

Honour for wealth; and oft that wealth doth 

cost 
The death of all, and all together lost. 

Lucrece, St. 21 (II. 141-7). 

AUGUST FIFTH 

How quickly nature falls into revolt 

When gold becomes her obje^l! 

For this the foolish over-careful fathers 

Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains 

with care. 
Their bones with industry. 

Second Part King Henry IV, iv. v. 

AUGUST SIXTH 

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, 

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to 

heaven; 
And as imagination bodies forth 
The forms of things unknown, the poets' pen 
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing 
A local habitation and a name. 

Midsummer Nighfs Dream, v. i. 
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AUGUST SEVENTH 

In companions 
That do converse and waste the time together, 
Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love, 
There must be needs a like proportion 
Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit. 

Merchant of Venice, in. Iv. 

AUGUST EIGHTH 

We know each other's faces, 
But for our hearts, he knows no more of mine. 
Than I of yours; 
Nor I no more of his, than you of mine. 

King Richard III, in. iv. 

AUGUST NINTH 

The gentleness of all the gods go with thee ! 

Twelfth Night, ii. i. 

When you depart from me, sorrow abides and 
happiness takes his leave. 

Much Ado About Nothing, i. i. 

AUGUST TENTH 

And whether we shall meet again, I know not. 

If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; 
If not, why then, this parting was well made. 

Julius Casar, V. I. 
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AUGUST ELEVENTH 

Great men may jest with saints : 't is wit in them: 
But in the less, foul profanation. . . . 
That in the captain's but a choleric word, 
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. 

Measure for Measure, ii. ii. 

AUGUST TWELFTH 

Here's flowers for you: 
Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; 
The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun 
And with him rises weeping; these are flowers 
Of middle summer. 

Winters Tale, iv. iii. 

AUGUST THIRTEENTH 

There are a sort of men whose visages 
Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, 
And do a wilful stillness entertain. 
With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion 
Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; 
As who should say, "I am Sir Oracle, 
And when I ope my lips let no dog bark." 

Merchant of Venice, i. i. 

AUGUST FOURTEENTH 

Degree being vizarded. 
The unworthiest shows as fairly in the mask. 
The heavens themselves, the planets, and this 
centre 

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Observe degree, priority, and place, 
Insisture, course, proportion, season, form. 
Office, and custom, in all line or order. 

Troilus and Cressida, i. iii. 

AUGUST FIFTEENTH 

We are all men, 

In our own natures frail, and capable 

Of our flesh; few are angels. 

King Henry VllI, v. iii. 

AUGUST SIXTEENTH 

constancy, be strong upon my side, 

Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue ! 

1 have a man's mind, but a woman's might. 
How hard it is for women to keep counsel! 

Julius Casar, n. iv. 

AUGUST SEVENTEENTH 

Her sight did ravish, but her grace in speech. 
Her words y-clad with wisdom's majesty . . . 

Second Part King Henry yi,i.\. 

Her infinite variety 

Antony and Cleopatra, ii. ii. 

AUGUST EIGHTEENTH 

Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou 
write with a goose-pen, no matter. 

Twelfth Nigkt, III. ii. 
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AUGUST NINETEENTH 

I am not of that feather to shake ofF 
My friend when he must need me. 

Timon of Athens, i. i. 

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan 
The outward habit by the inward man. 

Pericles, ii. H. 

AUGUST TWENTIETH 

Maids, in modesty, say "no" to that 
Which they would have the profFerer con- 
strue "ay." 

Two Gentlemen of Verona, I. ii. 

When no friends are by, men praise themselves. 
Titus Andronicus, V. iii. 

AUGUST TWENTY-FIRST 

When we our betters see bearing our woes, 
We scarcely think our miseries our foes. 
Who alone suffers suffers most i' the mind, 
Leaving free things and happy shows behind; 
But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip 
When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship. 

King Lear, iii. vi. 



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AUGUST TWENTY-SECOND 

Time is like a fashionable host, 
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the 

hand, 
And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, 
Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, 
And farewell goes out sighing. 

Troilus and Cressida, in. iii. 

AUGUST TWENTY-THIRD 

These violent delights have violent ends 
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder. 
Which as they kiss consume : the sweetest honey 
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness. 
And in the taste confounds the appetite. 

and Juliet, ii. vi. 



AUGUST TWENTY-FOURTH 

For grief is proud and makes his owner stoop; 

. . . my grief's so great 

That no supporter but the huge firm earth 

Can hold it up; here I and sorrow sit; 

Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. 

King John, in. i. 

AUGUST TWENTY-FIFTH 

Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, de- 
serves as well a dark house and a whip as mad- 

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men do; and the reason they are not so punished 

and cured is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that 

the whippers are in love too. 

As You Like It, ni. ii. 

AUGUST TWENTY-SIXTH 

The sweat of industry would dry and die, 

But for the end it works to. Come; our stomachs 

Will make what's homely savoury: weariness 

Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth 

Finds the down pillow hard. 

Cymbeline, in. vi. 

AUGUST TWENTY-SEVENTH 

You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary, 

Come hither from the furrow and be merry. 

Make Holiday; your rye-straw hats put on. 

And these fresh nymphs encounter every one 

In country footing. 

The Tempest, iv. i. 

AUGUST TWENTY-EIGHTH 

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted ! 
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just. 
And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, 
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. 

Second Part King Henry VI, in. ii. 



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AUGUST TWENTY-NINTH 

Withal, full oft we see 
Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. 

Airs tVell That Ends Well, i. i. 

What cannot be eschew'd must be embraced. 

Merry Winjes of Windsor^ v, v. 

AUGUST THIRTIETH 

If I could temporize with my afFedtion, ' 
Or brew it to a weak and colder palate, 
The like allayment could I give my grief: 
My love admits no qualifying dross; 
No more my grief, in such a precious loss. 

Troilus and Cressida, iv. iv. 

AUGUST THIRTY-FIRST 

If I am 
Traduced by ignorant tongues, which neither 

know 
My faculties nor person, yet will be 
The chronicles of my doing, let me say 
'T is but the fate of place and the rough brake 
That virtue must go through. 

King Henry Fill, i. ii. 



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SEPTEMBER 

SEPTEMBER FIRST 

GOLD ? yellow, glittering, precious gold ? No, 
gods, 
I am no idle votarist. . . . 
This yellow slave 

Will knit and break religions, bless the accursed. 
Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves 
And give them title, knee and approbation 
With senators on the bench. 

Timon of Athens y iv. iii. 

SEPTEMBER SECOND 

The world is grown so bad 
That wrens make prey where eagles dare not 

perch. 
Since every Jack became a gentleman. 
There's many a gentle person made a Jack. 

King Richard III, i. iii. 

SEPTEMBER THIRD 

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a 
hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree; such a hare 
is madness the youth, to skip o'er the meshes of 
good counsel the cripple. Merchant of Venice, i. ii. 

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SEPTEMBER FOURTH 

O that I were a man ! . . . I cannot be a man 

with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with 

grieving. 

Much Ado About Nothing, iv. i. 

SEPTEMBER FIFTH 

She bore a mind that envy could not but call fair. 

T^-welfth Night, ii. i. 

The gods make her prosperous! Pericles v i 

SEPTEMBER SIXTH 

*T is certain, greatness, once fall'n out with for- 
tune. 
Must fall out with men too : what the declined is 
He shall as soon read in the eyes of others 
As feel in his own fall, c^.,-/^, ^„^ Cressida, lu. iii. 

SEPTEMBER SEVENTH 

For his sake 
Did I expose myself, pure for his love. 
Into the danger of this adverse town; 
Drew to defend him when he was beset: 
Where being apprehended, his false cunning. 
Not meaning to partake with me in danger. 
Taught him to face me out of his acquaintance 
And grew a twenty-year removed thing 

While one would wink. 

T'welfth Night, v. I. 

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SEPTEMBER EIGHTH 

I know not 
What counts harsh fortune casts upon my face. 
But in my bosom shall she never come, 
To make my heart her vassal. 

Antony and Cleopatra^ ii. vl. 

SEPTEMBER NINTH 

Poor and content is rich and rich enough. 
But riches fineless is as poor as winter 
To him that ever fears he shall be poor. 

Othello, III. iii. 

SEPTEMBER TENTH 

O hateful error, melancholy's child. 

Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men 

The things that are not.? 

Julius Casar, v. iii. 

SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH 

He that of greatest works is finisher 
Oft does them by the weakest minister: 
. . . great floods have flown 
From simple sources, and great seas have dried 
When miracles have by the greatest been denied. 
All V Well That Ends Well, ii. i. 



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SEPTEMBER TWELFTH 

Yield not thy neck 
To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind 
Still ride in triumph over all mischance. 

Third Part King Henry VI, iii. iii. 

SEPTEMBER THIRTEENTH 

Possess'd with such a gentle sovereign grace, 
Of such enchanting presence and discourse, 
Hath almost made me traitor to myself; 
But, lest myself be guilty to self-wrong, 
I'll stop mine ears against the mermaid's song. 
Comedy of Errors, ill. ii. 

SEPTEMBER FOURTEENTH 

As surfeit is the father of much fast. 

So every scope by the immoderate use 

Turns to restraint. 

Measure for Measure, i. ii. 

SEPTEMBER FIFTEENTH 

The god of soldiers, 

With the consent of supreme Jove, inform 

Thy thoughts with nobleness; that thou mayst 

prove 

To shame invulnerable, and stick i' the wars 

Like a great sea-mark, standing every flaw, 

And saving those that eye thee! 

Coriolanus, v. iii, 

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SEPTEMBER SIXTEENTH 

. . . The innocent sleep, 

Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care, 

The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath. 

Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, 

Chief nourisher in life's feast. 

Macbeth^ n. ii. 

SEPTEMBER SEVENTEENTH 

Methinks it were an easy leap. 
To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon. 
Or dive into the bottom of the deep, 
Where fathom-line could never touch the ground. 
And pluck up drowned honour by the locks. 

First Fart King Henry IV, i. iii. 

SEPTEMBER EIGHTEENTH 

Earth's increase, foison plenty, 

Barns and garners never empty. 

Vines with clustering bunches growing, 

Plants with goodly burthen bowing; 

Spring come to you at the farthest, 

In the very end of harvest ! 

Scarcity and want shall shun you; 

Ceres' blessing so is on you. 

The Tempest, iv. i. 



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SEPTEMBER NINETEENTH 

How easy is it for the proper-false 
In women's waxen hearts to set their forms! 
Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we! 
For such as we are made of, such we be. 

tnuelfth Night, ii. ii. 

SEPTEMBER TWENTIETH 

Nought so vile that on the earth doth live 
But to the earth some special good doth give. 
Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use 
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse: 
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, 
And vice sometimes by action dignified. 

Romeo and Juliet, ii. iii. 

SEPTEMBER TWENTY-FIRST 

We, ignorant of ourselves, 
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers 
Deny us for our good; so find we profit. 
By losing of our prayers. 

Antony and Cleopatra, ii. ii. 

SEPTEMBER TWENTY-SECOND 

Didst thou but know the inly touch of love. 
Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow. 
As seek to quench the fire of love with words. 
Tijjo Gentlemen of Verona, ii. vli. 

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SEPTEMBER TWENTY-THIRD 

I cannot flatter; I do defy 
The tongues of soothers; but a braver place 
In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. 
First Part King Henry IV, iv. i. 

SEPTEMBER TWENTY-FOURTH 

He that commends me to mine own content 
Commends me to the thing I cannot get. 

Comedy of Errors, i. ii. 

Our content 
Is our best having. ^-^^ ^,^^_y frju^ ^^ iii_ 

SEPTEMBER TWENTY-FIFTH 

The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark 
When neither is attended, and I think 
The nightingale, if she should sing by day. 
When every goose is cackling, would be thought 
No better a musician than the wren. 
How many things by season season'd are, 
To their right praise and true perfe6tion ! 

Merchant of Venice, v. i. 

SEPTEMBER TWENTY-SIXTH 

There's none 
Can truly say he gives, if he receives; 
If our betters play at that game, we must not dare 
To imitate them: faults that are rich are fair. 



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Timon of Athens, i. 



SEPTEMBER TWENTY-SEVENTH 

If a man do not eredi in this age his own tomb 
ere he dies, he shall live no longer in monument 
than the bell rings and the widow weeps. 

Much Ado About Nothing, v. ii. 

SEPTEMBER TWENTY-EIGHTH 

Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate 

thee: 
Corruption wins not more than honesty. 
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace 
To silence envious tongues. Be just and fear not. 
King Henry Fill, in. ii. 

SEPTEMBER TWENTY-NINTH 

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended 
By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. 
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone 
Is the next way to draw new mischief on. 

Othello, I. iii. 

SEPTEMBER THIRTIETH 

Constant you are, 
But yet a woman; and for secrecy. 
No lady closer; for I well believe 
Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know: 
And so far will I trust thee. 

First Part King Henry IF, ii. iii. 

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OCTOBER 

OCTOBER FIRST 

WHY should the poor be flatter'd? 
No,let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, 
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee 

Where thrift may follow fawning. 

Hamlet, in. ii. 

OCTOBER SECOND 

Love all, trust a few. 
Do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy 
Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend 
Under thy own life's key; be check'd for silence. 
But never tax'd for speech. 

AlVs fVell That Ends Well, i. i. 

OCTOBER THIRD 

Cheer your heart; 
Be you not troubled with the time, which drives 
O'er your content these strong necessities; 
But let determined things to destiny 
Hold unbewail'd their way. 

Antony and Cleopatra, in. vi. 



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OCTOBER FOURTH 

How shall I live and work, 

To match thy goodness? My life will be too short, 

And every measure fail me. 

King Lear, iv. vii. 

OCTOBER FIFTH 

The first bringer of unwelcome news 
Hath but a losing office, and his tongue 
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, 
Remember'd knolling a departing friend. 

Second Part King Henry IF, i. i. 

OCTOBER SIXTH 

Fear no more the heat o' the sun. 

Nor the furious winter's rages; 

Thou thy worldly task hast done. 

Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. 

Cymbeline, iv. ii. 

OCTOBER SEVENTH 

O, but they say the tongues of dying men 

Enforce attention like deep harmony: 

Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in 

vain; 
For they breathe truth that breathe their words in 

pain. 

King Richard II, ii. i. 

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OCTOBER EIGHTH 

The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, 

The solemn temples, the great globe itself. 

Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, 

And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, 

Leave not a wrack behind. We are such stuff 

As dreams are made on, and our little life 

Is rounded with a sleep. 

The Tempest, IV. i. 

OCTOBER NINTH 

Society is no comfort 

To one not sociable. 

Cymbeline, IV. ii. 

Society, saith the text, is the happiness of life, 

Lo've''s Labour^ s Lost, iv. vi. 

OCTOBER TENTH 

'Twixt such friends as we 

Few words suffice. 

Taming of the Shreiu, i. il. 

Fellowship in woe doth woe assuage. 

Lucrece, st. 113 (1. 790). 

OCTOBER ELEVENTH 

Therefore doth heaven divide 
The state of man in divers functions, 
Setting endeavour in continual motion; 
To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, 
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Obedience: for so work the honey-bees, 
Creatures that by a rule in nature teach 
The a£t of order to a peopled kingdom. 

King Henry F, i. ii. 

OCTOBER TWELFTH 

Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries. 
With ladies' faces and fierce dragons' spleens, 
Have sold their fortunes at their native homes. 
Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs, 
To make a hazard of new fortunes here. 

King John, ii. i. 

OCTOBER THIRTEENTH 

It is the stars. 
The stars above us, govern our condition. 

King Lear, iv. iii. 

We cannot but obey 
The powers above us. 

Pericles, in. iii. 

OCTOBER FOURTEENTH 

How many goodly creatures are there here! 

How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, 

That has such people in 't! 

T'he Tempest, v. i. 



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OCTOBER FIFTEENTH 

Shall we now 

Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, 

And sell the mighty space of our large honours 

For so much trash as may be grasped thus? 

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, 

Than such a Roman. 

Julius Ccesar, iv. iii. 



OCTOBER SIXTEENTH 

I am in love; but a team of horses shall not pluck 
that from me; nor who 'tis I love; and yet 'tis 

a woman. 

Tnvo Gentlemen of Verona, in. i. 

OCTOBER SEVENTEENTH 

See what a ready tongue suspicion hath! 
He that but fears the thing he would not know 
Hath by instinct knowledge from others' eyes 
That what he fear'd is chanced. 

Second Part King Henry IV, i. i. 

OCTOBER EIGHTEENTH 

In the reproof of chance 
Lies the true proof of men; the sea being smooth, 
How many shallow bauble boats dare sail 
Upon her patient breast, making their way 
With those of nobler bulk ! 

Troilus and Cressida, i. iii. 

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OCTOBER NINETEENTH 

Now are our brows bound with viftorious wreaths j 
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; 
Our stern alarums chang'd to merry meetings, 
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. 
Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled 
front. 

King Richard III, i. i. 

OCTOBER TWENTIETH 

Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels, 
Be sure you be not loose; for those you make 

friends 
And give your hearts to, when they once perceive 
The least rub in your fortunes, fall away 
Like water from ye; never found again 
But where they mean to sink ye. 

King Henry Fill, ii. i. 

OCTOBER TWENTY-FIRST 

You shall mark 

Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave, 

That, doting on his own obsequious bondage, 

Wears out his time, much like his master's ass. 

For nought but provender, and when he 's old, 

cashier'd. 

Othello, I. i. 



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OCTOBER TWENTY-SECOND 

Our rash faults 
Make trivial price of serious things we have, 
Not knowing them until we know their grave. 
Oft our displeasures, to ourselves unjust, 
Destroy our friends and after weep their dust. 
Our own love waking cries to see what's done. 
All V tVell That Ends IFell, v. iii. 

OCTOBER TWENTY-THIRD 

O, it is excellent 
To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous 
To use it like a giant. 

Measure for Measure, ii. ii. 

OCTOBER TWENTY-FOURTH 
Trust none; 

For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes. 
King Henry F, ii. iii. 

OCTOBER TWENTY-FIFTH 

The year growing ancient, 
Not yet on sumrtier's death, nor on the birth 
Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' the 

season 
Are our carnations, and streak'd gillyvors. 

Winter s Tale, iv. iv. 



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OCTOBER TWENTY-SIXTH 

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, 

To throw a perfume on the violet. 

To smooth the ice, or add another hue 

Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light 

To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish. 

Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. 

King John, iv. ii. 

OCTOBER TWENTY-SEVENTH 

Nought's had, all's spent. 
Where our desire is got without content: 
'T is safer to be that which we destroy 
Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. 

Macbeth, III. ii. 

OCTOBER TWENTY-EIGHTH 

The great man down, you mark his favourite flies; 
The poor advanced makes friends of enemies. 
And hitherto doth love on fortune tend; 
For who not needs shall never lack a friend. 
And who in want a hollow friend doth try 
DireCtly seasons him his enemy. 



Hamlet, in. 



OCTOBER TWENTY-NINTH 
Who doth ambition shun 
And loves to live i' the sun, 
Seeking the food he eats, 

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And pleas'd with what he gets, 
Come hither, come hither, come hither: 
Here shall he see 
No enemy 
But winter and rough weather. 

Js You Like It, ii. v. 

OCTOBER THIRTIETH 

Ignorance is the curse of God, 

Knowledge the wings wherewith we fly to heaven. 

Second Part King Henry FI, iv. vii. 

There is no darkness but ignorance. 

Tivelfth Night, ly. ii. 

OCTOBER THIRTY-FIRST 

Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth. 

Midsummer Nighfs Dream, i. i. 

Motley's the only wear. 

As You Like It, ii. vii. 



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NOVEMBER 



NOVEMBER FIRST 

THE spirits of the dead 
May walk again. 

Winter s Tale, iii. iii. 

. . . Reverenc'd like a blessed saint. 

First Part King Henry VI, in. iii. 

NOVEMBER SECOND 

This is All-Soul's day, fellow, is it not.? 

King Richard III, v. i. 

Mount, mount, my soul ! thy seat is up on high. 
King Richard II, v. v. 

NOVEMBER THIRD 

If he be not in love with some woman, there is 
no believing old signs : a' brushes his hat o' morn- 
ings; what should that bode? 

Much Ado About Nothing, in. ii. 

NOVEMBER FOURTH 

The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts 
Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, 
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And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown 
An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds 
Is, as in mockery, set; the spring, the summer. 
The chiding autumn, angry winter, change 
Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world 
By their increase, now knows not which is which. 
Midsummer Nighfs Dream, ii. i. 

NOVEMBER FIFTH 

His nature is too noble for the world; 

He would not flatter Neptune for his trident. 

Or Jove for's power to thunder. 

Coriolanus, in. i. 

NOVEMBER SIXTH 

Look, what thy soul holds dear, imagine it 

To lie that way thou go'st, not whence thou 

comest. 

King Richard II, i. iii. 

NOVEMBER SEVENTH 

Men at some time are masters of their fates; 
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, 
But in ourselves, that we are underlings. 

Julius Casar, i. ii. 

NOVEMBER EIGHTH 

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back. 
Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, 

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A great-sized monster of ingratitudes. 

Those scraps are good deeds past, which are de- 

vour'd 

As fast as they are made, forgot as soon 

As done. 

"troilus and Cressida, ill. iii. 

NOVEMBER NINTH 

In faith, he is a worthy gentleman. 
Exceedingly well read, and profited 
In strange concealments, valiant as a lion 
And wondrous affable. 

First Part King Henry IF, in. i. 

NOVEMBER TENTH 

I love the people. 
But do not like to stage me to their eyes: 
Though it do well, I do not relish well 
Their loud applause and Aves vehement; 
Nor do I think the man of safe discretion 

That does afFed: it. 

Measure for Measure, i. i. 

NOVEMBER ELEVENTH 

O, let the vile world end, 
And the premised flames of the last day 
Knit earth and heaven together! 

Second Part King Henry VI, v. ii. 



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NOVEMBER TWELFTH 

The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. 

An evil soul producing holy witness 

Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, 

A goodly apple rotten at the heart: 

O, vv^hat a goodly outside falsehood hath! 

Merchant of Venice, i. iii. 

NOVEMBER THIRTEENTH 

'T is not enough to help the feeble up, 

But to support him after. 

Timon of Athens, i. i. 

NOVEMBER FOURTEENTH 

Never anything can be amiss 
When simpleness and duty tender it. 

Midsummer Nighfs Dream, v. i. 

NOVEMBER FIFTEENTH 

When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks j 
When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand; 
When the sun sets, who doth not look for night? 
King Richard III, ii. iii. 

NOVEMBER SIXTEENTH 

I find my zenith doth depend upon 
A most auspicious star; whose influence 
If now I court not but omit, my fortunes 
Will ever after droop. ^^^ Tempest, i. ii. 

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NOVEMBER SEVENTEENTH 

The passions of the mind, 
That have their first conception by mis-dread, 
Have after-nourishment and life by care; 
And what was first but fear what might be done. 
Grows elder now, and cares it be not done. 

Pericles, i. ii. 

NOVEMBER EIGHTEENTH 

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words. 
Brags of his substance, not of ornament. 
They are but beggars that can count their worth. 
Romeo and Juliet^ ii. vi. 

NOVEMBER NINETEENTH 

Let your reason serve 
To make the truth appear where it seems hid. 
And hide the false seems true. 

Measure for Measure, v. i. 

NOVEMBER TWENTIETH 

'T is pity 

That wishing well had not a body in 't 

Which might be felt, that we, the poorer born. 

Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes. 

Might with effects of them follow our friends. 

AlVs Well That Ends Well i. i. 



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NOVEMBER TWENTY-FIRST 
If I unwittingly, or in my rage, 
Have aught committed that is hardly borne 
By any in this presence, I desire 
To reconcile me to his friendly peace: 
'T is death to me, to be at enmity; 
I hate it, and desire all good men's love. 

King Richard III, ii. i, 

NOVEMBER TWENTY-SECOND 

Hail to thee, lady, and the grace of heaven, 

Before, behind thee, and on every hand, 

Enwheel thee round! 

Othello, II. i. 

NOVEMBER TWENTY-THIRD 

Be great in aft, as you have been in thought; 
Let not the vt^orld see fear and sad distrust 
Govern the motion of a kingly eye. 

King John v. i. 

NOVEMBER TWENTY-FOURTH 

Every grise of fortune 

Is smooth'd by that below^; the learned pate 

Ducks to the golden fool. All is oblique; 

There 's nothing level in our cursed natures 

But direct villainy. 

Timon of Athens, iv. iii. 

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And frame your mind to mirth and merriment, 
Which bars a thousand harms, and lengthens life. 
Taming of the Shrenu, ind. ii. 

JANUARY EIGHTH 

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot 
That it doth singe yourself; we may outrun 
By violent swiftness, that which we run at. 
And lose by over-running. Know you not 
The fire that mounts the liquor till 't run o'er, 
In seeming to augment it wastes it? 

King Henry Fill, i. I 

JANUARY NINTH 

He that stands upon a slippery place 
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. 

King John, iii. iv. 

The fool slides o'er the ice that you should break. 

Troilus and Cressida, in. iii. 

JANUARY TENTH 

Things won are done; joy's soul lies In the doing. 
That she beloved knows nought that knows not 

this: 
Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is. 

Troilus and Cressida, i. ii. 

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JANUARY ELEVENTH 

Time is a very bankrupt, and owes more than 

he's worth to season. 
Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men 

say, 
That Time comes stealing on by night and day ? 
If Time be in debt and theft, and a sergeant in 

the way. 

Hath he not reason to turn back an hour in a 

day ? 

Comedy of Errors, iv. ii. 

JANUARY TWELFTH 

It hath been taught us from the primal state, 
That he which is was wish'd until he were; 
And the ebb'd man, ne'er lov'd till ne'er worth 

love. 
Comes dear'd by being lack'd.This common body. 
Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream. 
Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, 
To rot itself with motion. 

Antony and Cleopatra, i. iv. 

JANUARY THIRTEENTH 

When all aloud the wind doth blow. 

And coughing drowns the parson's saw. 
And birds sit brooding in the snow. 

And Marian's nose looks red and raw. 



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When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, 
Then nightly sings the staring owl, 

To-whit ; 
To-who, a merry note. 

Lov/s Labour''s Lost, v. ii. 

JANUARY FOURTEENTH 

O world, thy sHppery turns! Friends now fast 

sworn, 
Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart, 
Whose house, whose bed, whose meal, and exer- 
cise. 
Are still together, who twin, as 't were, in love 
Unseparable, shall within this hour. 
On a dissension of a doit, break out 

To bitterest enmity. 

Coriolanus, iv. iv. 

JANUARY FIFTEENTH 

Why, have you any discretion? have you any 
eyes ? do you know what a man is ? Is not birth, 
beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, 
gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, 
the spice and salt that season a man? 

Troilus and Cress i da, i. ii. 



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JANUARY SIXTEENTH 

When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not 
see. rHvelfthNight,i.\. 

Did you ne'er hear say 
Two may keep counsel, putting one away? 

Romeo and Juliet, n. iv. 

JANUARY SEVENTEENTH 

Though justice be thy plea, consider this. 
That, in the course of justice, none of us 
Should see salvation; we do pray for mercy; 
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render 
The deeds of mercy. Merchant of Venice, IV. i. 

JANUARY EIGHTEENTH 

She is of so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a dis- 
position, she holds it a vice in her goodness not 

to do more than she is requested. 

Othello, II. lii. 

JANUARY NINETEENTH 

Tut! I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; 
Speak and look back, and pry on every side. 
Tremble and start at wagging of a straw. 
Intending deep suspicion: ghastly looks 
Are at my service, like enforced smiles; 
And both are ready in their offices 
At any time, to grace my stratagems. 

King Richard HI, in. v. 

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NOVEMBER TWENTY-FIFTH 

Between the a6ting of a dreadful thing 
And the first motion, all the interim is 
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream. 

Julius Casar, ii. i. 

NOVEMBER TWENTY-SIXTH 

His life is parallel'd 
Even with the stroke and line of his great jus- 
tice. 
He doth with holy abstinence subdue 
That in himself which he spurs on his power 

To qualify in others. 

Measure for Measure, iv, ii. 

NOVEMBER TWENTY-SEVENTH 

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings ; 

Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. 

King Richard III, v. ii. 

NOVEMBER TWENTY-EIGHTH 

But you are wise. 
Or else you love not, for to be wise and love 
Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above. 
Troilus and Cressida, in. ii. 



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NOVEMBER TWENTY-NINTH 

Those about her 
From her shall learn the perfe6t ways of honour. 
King Henry Fill, v. v. 



Flow, flow, 
You heavenly blessings, on her! 



Cymbeline, in. v. 



NOVEMBER THIRTIETH 

That time of year thou mayst in me behold 
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang 
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold. 
Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. 

Sonnet Ixxtii. 



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DECEMBER 



DECEMBER FIRST 

WOMEN will love her, that she is a woman 
More worth than any man; men, that she is 

The rarest of all women. 

Winter's Tale, v. i. 

DECEMBER SECOND 

Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud, 
And after summer evermore succeeds 
Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold; 
So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet. 

Second Part King Henry FI, ii. iv. 

DECEMBER THIRD 

Well, Heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! 
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall; 
Some run from brakes of vice, and answer none; 
And some condemned for a fault alone. 

Measure for Measure, ii. i. 

DECEMBER FOURTH 

I would dissemble with my nature where 

My fortunes and my friends at stake required 

I should do so in honour. 

Coriolanus, in. ii, 

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DECEMBER FIFTH 

Present fears 
Are less than horrible imaginings. 

Macbeth, i. iii. 

Such tricks hath strong imagination. 

Midsummer Nigkfs Dream, v. i. 

DECEMBER SIXTH 

O God ! That one might read the book of fate, 
And see the revolution of the times 
Make mountains level, and the continent. 
Weary of solid firmness, melt itself 
Into the sea! ... O, if this were seen. 
The happiest youth, viewing his progress through. 
What perils past, what crosses to ensue. 
Would shut the book, and sit him down and die. 
Second Part King Henry IF, in. i. 

DECEMBER SEVENTH 

The most peerless piece of earth, I think. 
That e'er the sun shone bright on. 

Winter s Tale, V. i. 

To be a queen in bondage is more vile 
Than is a slave in base servility. 
For princes should be free. 

First Part King Henry FI, v. iii. 

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DECEMBER EIGHTH 

The single and peculiar life is bound, 

With all the strength and armour of the mind, 

To keep itself from noyance; but much more 

That spirit upon whose weal depend and rest 

The lives of many. 

Hamlet, in. iii. 

DECEMBER NINTH 

The clock upbraids me with the waste of time. 
Tnvelfth Night, iii. i. 

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. 

King Richard II, v. v. 

DECEMBER TENTH 

These should be hours for necessities. 

Not for delights; times to repair our nature 

With comforting repose, and not for us 

To waste these times. 

King Henry Fill, v. i. 

DECEMBER ELEVENTH 

He cannot be a perfect man, 
Not being tried and tutor'd in the world: 
Experience is by industry achieved 
And perfected by the swift course of time. 

Two Gentlemen of Verona, i. iii. 

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DECEMBER TWELFTH 

You may as well 

Forbid the sea for to obey the moon 

As by oath remove or counsel shake 

The fabric of his folly, whose foundation 

Is piled upon his faith and will continue 

The standing of his body. 

Winter^s Tale, i. ii. 

DECEMBER THIRTEENTH 

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, 
Love can transpose to form and dignity. 
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; 
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind: 
Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; 
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: 
And therefore is Love said to be a child. 

Midsummer Nighfs Dream, i. i. 

DECEMBER FOURTEENTH 

Cowards die many times before their deaths; 

The valiant never taste of death but once. 

Of all the wonders that I yet have heard. 

It seems to me most strange that men should fear; 

Seeing that death, a necessary end, 

Will come when it will come. 

Julius Casar, il. ii. 



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DECEMBER FIFTEENTH 

When we shall hear 
The rain and wind beat dark December, how 
In this our pinching cave shall we discourse 
The freezing hours away? 

Cymbeline, in. iii. 

DECEMBER SIXTEENTH 

Your fine-new stamp of honour is scarce current. 
O, that your young nobility could judge 
What 't were to lose it, and be miserable! 
They that stand high have many blasts to shake 

them. 
And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces. 
King Richard III, i. iii. 

DECEMBER SEVENTEENTH 

They say all lovers swear more performance than 

they are able and yet reserve an ability that they 

never perform, vowing more than the perfedlion 

of ten and discharging less than the tenth part of 

one. 

Troilus and Cressida, ill. ii. 

DECEMBER EIGHTEENTH 

Anything that's mended is but patch'd : virtue that 
transgresses is but patched with sin ; and sin that 
amends is but patched with virtue. 

Twelfth Night, i. v. 

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DECEMBER NINETEENTH 

If we shall stand still, 

In fear our motion will be mock'd or carp'd at, 

We would take root here where we sit, or sit 

State-statues only. 

King Henry Fill, i. ii. 

DECEMBER TWENTIETH 

Whither should I fly ? 
I have done no harm. But I remember now 
I am in this earthly world; where to do harm 
Is often laudable, to do good sometime 
Accounted dangerous folly: why then, alas, 
Do I put up that womanly defence. 
To say I have done no harm? 

Macbeth, iv. il. 

DECEMBER TWENTY-FIRST 

The southern wind 
Doth play the trumpet to his purposes. 
And by his hollow whistling in the leaves 
Foretells a tempest and a blustering day. 

First Part King Henry IF, v. i. 

DECEMBER TWENTY-SECOND 

When griping grief the heart doth wound, 

And doleful dumps the mind oppress. 
Then music with her silver sound 
With speedy help doth lend redress. 

Romeo and Juliet, iv. v. 
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DECEMBER TWENTY-THIRD 

Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly; 
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere 
folly: 

Then, heigh-ho, the holly! 
This life is most jolly. 

As You Like It, ii. vii. 

DECEMBER TWENTY-FOURTH 

That season comes 
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, . . . 
So hallowed and so gracious is the time. 

Hamlet, i. i. 

The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes. 

Of burning cressets. 

First Part King Henry IF, iii. i. 

DECEMBER TWENTY-FIFTH 

Heaven give you many^ many merry days I 

Merry fFives of Windsor, v. v. 

Be merry; you have cause. 
So have we all, of joy. ^^^ ^^^^^^,^ ^^ j 

DECEMBER TWENTY-SIXTH 

I can no other answer make but thanks. 

And thanks, and ever thanks. 

Tnvelfth Night, ni. iii. 

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DECEMBER TWENTY-SEVENTH 
If all the year were playing holidays. 
To sport would be as tedious as to work; 
But when they seldom come,they wish'd for come, 
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. 

First Part King Henry IV, i. ii. 

DECEMBER TWENTY-EIGHTH 

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. 
And let my liver rather heat with wine 
Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. 
Why should a man, whose blood is warm within. 
Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? 

Merchant of Venice, i. i. 

DECEMBER TWENTY-NINTH 

We have many goodly days to see: 
The liquid drops of tears that you have shed 
Shall come again transform'd to orient pearl. 
Advantaging the loan with interest 
Of ten times double gain of happiness. 

King Richard III, iv. iv 

DECEMBER THIRTIETH 

O gentlemen, the time of life is short! 

To spend that shortness basely were too long. 

If life did ride upon a dial's point, 

Still ending at the arrival of an hour. 

First Part King Henry IV, V, ii. 

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DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST 

And so farewell, and fair be all thy hopes, 
And prosperous be thy life. 

First Part King Henry Fly ii. v. 

God be wi' you; fare you well, 

Hamlet, ii. i. 



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